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Show SENATE CONTINUES THE FIGHT ON THAT JUNKET But the Law Makers Find Time to Refer Fifteen Bills and Accepts Several Reports. Although the Senate, yesterday allowed al-lowed itself to be worried to some extent ex-tent by the question of that Junket to Logan to inspect the Agricultural college, col-lege, It found! time to refer fifteen new measures to committees, accept a few reports and pass two bills. Of these proposed legislative acts, nine, from No. 95 to No. 103, inclusive, are aimed at amending and amplifying the code in? relation to city courts. They were all sent to the Judiciary committee. commit-tee. The other measures were: . Bill No. 101. Sherman. Is intended to give City Councils and Boards of County Commissioner power to subpoena wit- nesses and administer oaths In the revocation revo-cation of licenses. They have not this power under the present law. This bill went to the Judiciary committee. B0 1 No. 106, Sheraan. is Intended to more clearly define the laws relating to highways In cities and towns. This went to the Judiciary committee. Bill No. 106, Lewis, provides for second exits in large mines, and passages between be-tween the shafts. Bill No. 108, Lawrence, Is a measure providing pro-viding for triple damages for injury done by noxious fumes from smelters. It is Intended to apply more particularly to vegetation. The present law allows only simple damages for the amount of the io. Bill '"No.-109, Lawrence, is also aimed at the snelter smoke 'nuisance. It is Intend, ed to give courts power to refuse to grant Injunctions to shut down smeltera and to compel the smelters to give bonds to pay the damages. The Senate passed House bill No. 24, which provides for the ceding to the Federal Fed-eral Government bf the State of all sites for Federal bui'dings. The House amendment to Senate bin No. 12, cutting the bounty on grasshoppers grasshop-pers to 1 cent a pound, was concurred in. and the measure will go to the Governor Gover-nor In that shape. The bill Intended to provide a nine-hour nine-hour day for motormen and conductors was killed by report of the Committee on Private Corporations, as was the public printing bill by the Printing committee. Senate bill No. 63, Lawrence, intended to prevent the destruction of property belonging be-longing to electrical companies, passed the Senate under suspension of the rules. Senator Lawrence said this measure was intended primarily to prevent the breaking break-ing of the glass insulators. Many of Petitions asking for the passage of Bamberger's "booze bill" came from Weber, Carbon and Emery counties, and went to the Committee on County and Municipal Corporations which has the measure. The bill to permit and regulate the practice of osteopathy in Utah caused an animated discussion, which developed devel-oped the fact that the way of the drug-less drug-less practitioner is not all strewn with roses. The measure finally was re-Teferred to the committee. After another fight over the question of the Logan trip, Senators Barnes and Loose were appointed a conference committee to confer with a committee from the House. |